Quotes from Tennessee Williams

Siempre hay un tiempo para marchar aunque no haya sitio a donde ir. Tennessee Williams

Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you've got to keep going.

I'm not going to be hypocritical, I'm going to be honestly critical

They're going to blow us all sky-high some night! I'll be glad, very happy, and so will you! You'll go up, up on a broomstick, over Blue Mountain with seventeen gentlemen callers! You ugly-babbling old-witch...

I'll rise - but I won't shine.

A single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!

But, honey, you know as well as I do that a single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!

Entra Tom. Va vestido como un marino mercante. Cruza hasta la escalera de incendios, donde se detiene y enciende un cigarrillo. Se dirige el público.   TOM: Es cierto, me reservo algunos trucos, me guardo algún as en la manga. Pero soy lo contrario de un mago de la escena. Él ofrece una ilusión con apariencia de verdad, yo os entregaré la verdad con el amable disfraz de la ilusión.

Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light.

You're burning the candle at both ends, Kid . . . (He moves from the table across the room.) And in my humble opinion the light ain't worth it.

Désirer, cela consiste à vouloir occuper un espace plus grand que celui qui vous est offert

He always entered the house as though he were entering it with the intention of tearing it down from inside

This disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself.

I don't want realism

I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.

Tú siempre has tenido ese carácter distante, como si participaras en un juego en el que no te importa demasiado ganar o perder, y ahora has perdido, más que perdido has abandonado el juego, posees ese extraño encanto que normalmente sólo se da en personas muy ancianas o en enfermos desahuciados. El encanto de los derrotados. Pareces tan frío, tan frío, tan envidiablemente frío.

You don't understand. When a life is completed, it ought to be put away. It's like a sonnet. When you've written the final couplet, why go on any further? You only destroy the part that's already written!

Desconocer la muerte da tranquilidad. El hombre no goza de esa tranquilidad, es el único ser viviente que sabe que va a morir, y que sabe en qué consiste la muerte. Los otros seres no, y así deberían vivir todos, sin saberlo, sin tener la más remota idea.

In this way, I destroyed him, by telling him truth that he and his world which he was born and raised in, yours and his world, had told him could not be told?

That time is short and it doesn't return again.

Honey, you're not operating on the realistic level anymore than I am.

Oh, dear, dear! I had to walk straight forward—past the last elm tree and into that merciless sunlight. Oh! It beat down on me, scorching me! Whips! . . . Oh, Jesus! . . . Over my face and my body! . . . I tried to walk on fast but was dizzy and they kept closer behind me—! I stumbled, I

You don't have the proper amount of faith in yourself.

He is gallantly smiling, ineluctably smiling, as if to say 'I will be smiling forever.